Ma Yun became one of the richest men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock（股票)market last year with a value of around 140 billion-the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him on the way to success.
Ma made his first trip to the a US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After searching for “beer”, he saw that no results came up about China. Then he searched for “China” and still saw no results. He decided to set up a Chinese website--the seed for Alibaba was sown(播种).
Ma said he was refused many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and few companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.
It was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager because of limited resources. However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. And he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up a new world for him because everything they said and did was so different from what he had been taught at school and by his parents.
Ma’s hero is Forrest Gump who never gives up. When he made a speech about his success at Davos(达沃斯论坛)in 2015,Ma said, “Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get.”
根据上面短文的内容回答问题。
1.When did Ma Yun make his first trip to the US.
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2.How many times was Ma Yun refused by Harvard University?
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3.How did Ma Yun learn English well when he was a teenager?
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4.Did Ma Yun make a speech at Davos in 2015?
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5.Why does Ma Yun consider Forrest Gump as his hero?
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完成句子。（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
1.像往常一样，我们放学后步行回家。
_____________, we went back home ____________after school.
2.你最好不要熬夜，这样才能保持健康。
You _________not stay up late, so you can ________.
3.今天下午我们将上一节关于美国乡村音乐的课，不要迟到。
This afternoon we will have a lesson about American _________. Don’t __________class.
4.打开电视好吗? 我想知道明天的天气预报.
Would you please _______ the TV? I want to know the __________ for tomorrow.
5.这个女孩既不喜欢唱歌也不喜欢跳舞,但她偏爱画画.
The girl enjoys ________, but she prefers to draw pictures.
根据句意，用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空。
1.Please don’t go _________(swim) on your own. It’s too dangerous.
2.The office worker __________(catch) the early bus to work every day.
3.Emily’s mother didn’t allow her to watch her favorite programme Running Man and it made her ________(happy).
4.Miss Green advised us to decorate a card for each other with those __________(leaf).
5.Little Edison is clever enough to learn paper-cutting by _________(he).
6.It’s important for us to use natural resources ________(wise).
7.Peter and his wife live on the ____________(seven) floor and they go up and down by lift.
根据句子意思，从方框中选用恰当的单词或短语填空。
lead to, fall behind, once a month, take care of , terrible, on business,closed, chopsticks, the most expensive |
1.Simon works hard all the time so he won’t ________.
2.This is ________watch in the shop. I can’t afford it.
3.Amy goes to the reading club________.
4.It’s our duty to _______our parents when they are old.
5.A __________earthquake hit Nepal on April 25,2015 and many people gave a helping hand.
6.My father has gone to Hongkong __________. He will stay there for two weeks.
7.The local government _____ the factories which caused water pollution in that area.
8.Those western students in our school try to use ________when they have meals.
Monarch butterflies from eastern Canada make the most amazing journey in the insect world. Each year, this butterfly travels about 3000miles to its winter home in central Mexico(墨西哥). How can it fly so far? And why does it make this long and dangerous trip? Scientists still don’t have an answer.
For many years, people in Mexico wondered where the orange-and-black butterflies came from every winter. Then, in 1937, a scientist started to follow and study the butterflies. For the next 20 years, he discovered that one butterfly started its journey in Canada. Four months later, it arrived in Mexico.
The length of the butterflies find their way back to the same place? Another amazing thing is that the butterflies always return to the same area in central Mexico.
How do the butterflies find their way back to the same place? This is an interesting question because only every fourth generation(代)makes the trip south. In other words, the butterfly that travels to Mexico this year is the great-great-grandchild of the butterfly that traveled there last year.
Each year, four generations of a Monarch butterfly family are born. Each generation of the family has a very different life. The first generation is born in the south in late April. It slowly moves north, reproduces(繁衍), and then dies. On the trip north,two more generations are born, reproduce, and die. Each of these generations of butterflies is born. This generation has a much longer life. It lives for about eight months. This generation of butterflies makes the amazing journey back to the winter home of its great-great-grandparents. The butterflies spend the winter there, and in the spring they reproduce and then die. Their offspring will be the first generation of the next circle of life.
Today, people are still studying the Monarch butterfly. But they are not clear about everything.
1.The best title of the passage can be ________.
A.Family of Monarch butterflies
B. Mystery of Monarch butterflies
C.Monarch butterflies’ birthplace
D.Monarch butterflies’ winter home
2.It took the scientist ______ to find out that monarch butterflies came from Canada.
A. 20 years B. four months
C.five weeks D.eight months
3.We know that the _____ generation of Monarch butterflies travel back to central Mexico.
A.first B. second
C.third D.fourth
4.The underlined word “offspring” in the passage is closest in meaning to______.
A. seasons B. butterflies
C.children D.parents
5.Which statement is true according to the text?
A.Monarch butterflies spend winter in eastern Canada.
B.The four generations have the same length of life.
C.Some generations die on the way north to Canada.
D.Scientists are clear about everything of the butterflies
Foods that are well known to you may not be familiar to people from different places around the world. Tourists and travelers often get to try some unfamiliar food. That is part of the fun of traveling. Here are four people’s experiences with foreign food.
David King is a Chinese student in France. “I never had cheese or even milk before I came to France. Cows are seldom seen in my part of China. So there is no milk or milk products. I drank some milk when I first arrived in France. I hated it! I tried cheese, too, but I didn’t like it. I love ice cream, though that’s made from milk.” |
Birgit is from Sweden. She traveled to Australia on vocation. “I was in a restaurant that was special in fish. I heard some other people order flake, so I ordered some, too. It was delicious! Later, I learned that flakes is an Australian name for shark. Now, whenever I see a new food, I try it on purpose. You know why? I remember how much I enjoyed flake.” |
Chandra is a dentist in Texas. She is from India. “ I’m afraid to try new foods because maybe there is beef in them. I’m a Hindu(印度教信徒)and my religion(信仰) stops me from eating meat from the cow. That’s why I can’t eat hamburgers or noodles with meatballs.” |
Nathan is from the United States. He taught for a year in China. “My friend gave me some 100-year-old eggs to eat. I didn’t like their appearance at all. The eggs were green inside, but my friends said the color was normal. Chinese people put something on fresh eggs. Then they put them in the earth for three months. So the eggs weren’t really very old. Even so, I didn’t want to touch them.” |
1.David King is a student in France and he comes from________.
A.China B. Sweden C.India D. America
2..Birgit ordered _____in a restaurant during her vocation in Australia.
A. cheese B. eggs
C. hamburgers D. flake
3.Chandra is afraid to try new foods because_________.
A.she can’t eat food with beef
B. she doesn’t like their appearance
C .she doesn’t like foreign food
D. she doesn’t need any food at all
4.Nathan worked as _______ in China for a year.
A. a worker B. a dentist
C.a teacher D. a student
5.The passage tells us that ___________.
A.David King often drinks milk
B. flake and shark are the same fish
C .a Hindu eats meat from the cow
D. the egg is put in the earth for a hundred years
